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I am interested in taking music into the realm of education but I am not sure what type of subjects I would take for the things I would like to learn.
Things I would like to learn are circuitry, maybe coding, and the likes. I guess lowering it down to 2 things. I would either like to learn how to code vst's and such or
I would like to learn about the hardware side, circut bending, building hardware and the like.... So my question is what college area's are good for these subject matters and
what kind of experiences have any of you with this side of the industry?

Two very separate and distinct paths here.

For the software side, you'd be pursuing something akin to a computer science degree, which would entail becoming a programmer and learning procedural machine languages.

For the hardware side, you'd want to go the electrical engineering route.

Either way, both hardware and software meet at certain points and cannot function without the other, but you have to ask yourself which do you love more and wouldn't mind doing for the rest of your life.

atticuh wrote:Two very separate and distinct paths here.

For the software side, you'd be pursuing something akin to a computer science degree, which would entail becoming a programmer.

For the hardware side, you'd want to go the electrical engineering route.

Either way, both hardware and software meet at certain points and cannot function without the other, but you have to ask yourself which do you love more and wouldn't mind doing for the rest of your life.

Thank you for the answer, do we have any well know dsf programmers or electrical engineers?
Are there any other subject area's that might be useful while going into either of these fields?

Computer science/Electrical engineering/Music and Physics/Maths will all give you the basis for what you need.

A heads up though, depending on here you study and the course aims there is a good chance that you will never touch an actual physical circuit even if the course is called Electrical engineering.

Check AES for some good introductory info:
http://www.aes.org/education/directory/region.cfm

Are you from the UK by any chance?

Edit: double post...

id suggest saving your money and just self teach/learn to do what you want to do.

didge wrote:Computer science/Electrical engineering/Music and Physics/Maths will all give you the basis for what you need.

A heads up though, depending on here you study and the course aims there is a good chance that you will never touch an actual physical circuit even if the course is called Electrical engineering.

Check AES for some good introductory info:
http://www.aes.org/education/directory/region.cfm

Are you from the UK by any chance?

That link has a lot of good info! I'm not uk but that had some things in my area and places I am familiar with.
In any case I have some ideas of what I might start looking into this next semester.
Thanks, for info all.